KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 6 -- Throughout human history, it has been a sad fact that rights have never been freely given so much as they have needed to be advocated and fought for.

Telling the stories of the people who keep fighting for those rights matters.

Being Heumann is a biopic about disabled activist Judy Heumann and her success, alongside other activists, in gaining approval for an important law safeguarding the rights of people with disabilities.

This law was Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which would ensure that the disabled would not be discriminated against in federally funded programmes.

It wasn't achieved by polite letter writing or sedate speeches; Heumann and her cohort held a sit-in at the San Francisco offic...